Improvement in milking-stools



initetl (States aient @twine EPHRAIM MAR'IIN AND SAMUEL M. OHITTENDEN, OF .BALDWINSVILLEL NEW YORK,

ASSIGNORS TO DANIEL D. OHITTENDEN, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 99,098. dated January 25, 1870.

` IMPROVEMENT IN MILKING-STOOLS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peut of the same.

To all whom it may concern.

Beit known that we, EPHRAIM MARTIN and SAMUEL VM. CHITTENDEN, both of Baldwinsville, in the county of Onondaga, and .State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milking-Stools; 'and we do hereby declare that the following is a clear and f ull description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of these specications, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of the stool, with pailrest in position for use.

Figure 2 is a front or side view of the stool, with pail-rest turned under, which is its proper place when not in use.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of pail-rest.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the seat or bed ofthe stool.

B is a Slat-lever, by which the switch-holder is operated.

G is the sta or standard, to which the switch-holder is attached.

D -is the clamping-hook or switch-holder.

E is the pail-rest, on which the pail is set when milking.

F F F are the legs of the stool'.

g is a staple near t-op of staff, which serves to keep the clamping-hook in place.

h is a spiral spring under the narrowend oi' slatlever.

The Slat-lever B is made of half-inch stuff, in shape as indicated in g. 1, let into the bed of the stoolits full thickness at its wide end, rising with a slant to top of stool-bed at the narrow end; it is attached to the stool by a leather hinge at its wide end.

The clamping-hook D is made ot' half-inch bandiron, bent at each end in opposite directions, forming a flat hook one inch long.' One hook is placed under the narrow end of Slat-lever B, and secured by a screw; it then passes up the side of sta C, and is kept in place by staple, g, the upper hook extending across the' top of the stad', as shown in fig. 2.

The clamping-hook is operated by the milkman sitting, in part, on Slat-lever B. rlhis draws the hook down, with a few hairs of the cows tail or switch under it, into a slot in top of staff O, thus holding the switch or tail rmly during the process of milking, as seen in fr 1.

g;.[his prevents the cow from annoying the milkerin her efforts to keep off flies with her switch.

The instant the pressure lis removed from the slatlever, it is thrown up by spiral spring h, elevating the clamping-hook, and releasing the switch or tail of thev cow, as seen in fig. 2.

The pail-rest is, in form, as shown in g. 3; itis attached tothe stool by slipping iton to the front leg of the stool, which is made straight, and stands perpendicular it is secured by a piu through the leg, and

is adjustable, to be raised and lowered to suit the couvenience of the rnilker, and turned under theI stool-out of the way when not in use, as seen in iig. 2. By this means the pail is keptfrom contact with barn-yard dirt, or the filth of the stall, during the process of milk ing.

We do not claim, separately, either a switch-clamp or a pail-rest in combination with a milking-stool; but having thus described our invention,

\Vhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The spring under the lever B, in combination with the switch-clamp B C D, and the stool A F, provided with the swinging and vertically-adj ustable pail-rest E, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as herein described.

EPHRAIM MARTIN. SAMUEL M. GHITTENDEN.

Witnesses: f

FRED. A. MARVIN, Gao. HALL. 

